History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

God is a shower to the heart burned up with grief; God is a sun to the face deluged with tears.

The man abandoned by his friends, one after another, without just cause, will acquire, the reputation of being hard to please, changeable, ungrateful, unsociable.

Persons of delicate taste endure stupid criticism better than they do stupid praise.